Since last week, the Office of Research Safety at Northwestern University has delivered urgent medical supplies collected from campus labs and researchers for use by healthcare workers at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH).

Northwestern University medical students are orchestrating donations of N95 respirators, surgical masks, surgical gowns and gloves and distributing them to emergency medicine departments and intensive care units around Chicago.

Despite concern, there is no current evidence that hypertension medication causes a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 or worsens symptoms, according to an editorial published March 25.
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The entire federal government must use the same tactics to combat the COVID-19 outbreak, or our efforts will fail, said Northwestern University infectious disease expert Dr. Robert Murphy during a March 24 COVID-19 webinar.
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